51.7769° N, 19.4547° E
LODZ
Most Famous People Born in Lodz, Poland
- Notable people
- 723
- Peak decade
- 1920s
- Median birth year
- 1936
- Most distinctive
- Dancer 18.2×
Before the war Łódź was a textile boom town stitched together by Polish, Jewish and German mill owners; afterward it became the country's cinematic capital, the Łódź Film School factory where Polanski, Wajda and Kieślowski learned the craft. The Dancer count runs at better than eighteen times the national baseline, and a thick Pianist and Chemist bench hints at the bourgeois conservatory culture that somehow survived the smokestacks.
One face per decade — the most globally famous figure born in Lodz during each.
Notable Births by Decade
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What Lodz Is Known For
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Football is Lodz's biggest profession — 9% of all notables (66).
Lodz over-indexes on dancer — 18.2× the global rate.
Lodz under-produces politician — only 0.5× the global rate.
Profession Mix Over Time
Each band shows a profession family's share of Lodz's notable births by decade. Hover the chart for the breakdown at any decade.
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- Writing
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- Music
- Art & Design
- Other
- Filtered to 1890s Clear ×
Julian Tuwim
1894 - 1953
Michał Kalecki
1899 - 1970
Alexandre Tansman
1897 - 1986
Arthur Szyk
1894 - 1951
Stanisława Leszczyńska
1896 - 1974
Rudolph Loewenstein (psychoanalyst)
1898 - 1976
Henri Epstein
1891 - 1944
Józef Hecht
1891 - 1951
Karol Hiller
1891 - 1939
Jan Kowalewski
1892 - 1965
Wacław Lipiński
1896 - 1949
Ze'ev Raban
1890 - 1970
Maurice Mendjizky
1890 - 1951
Lola Prusac
1895 - 1985
Lawrence Lipton
1898 - 1975
Edward Pfeiffer
1895 - 1964
Kadmi Cohen
1892 - 1944
Teodor Regedziński
1894 - 1954
Marcel Slodki
1892 - 1943
Maurice Blond
1899 - 1974
Irena Tuwim
1899 - 1987
Jerzy Waldemar Jarocinski
1893 - 1970
Henech Kon
1890 - 1972
Stanisław Sielański
1899 - 1955
Lydia Kindermann
1892 - 1953
Theodore Abel
1896 - 1988
Max Bozyk
1899 - 1970
John Stanislaw Batavia
1898 - 1980
Karol Szreter
1898 - 1933
Zygmund Schreter
1896 - 1977
Abraham Horodisch
1898 - 1987
Joseph Yasser
1893 - 1981
Henoch Barczyński
1896 - 1941
Janina Janecka
1893 - 1938
Lena Amsel
1898 - 1929
Charles Malamuth
1899 - 1965
Zygmunt Landau
1898 - 1962
Rachel Minc
1899 - 1978
Jakub Kolski
1899 - 1941
Joseph Bukiet
1896 - 1984
Haim Epstein
1891 - 1944
Ivan Lorents
1890 - 1941
Marian Neuteich
1890 - 1943
Jakub Poznański
1890 - 1959
Bolesław Konorski
1892 - 1986
Sergei Radamsky
1890 - 1973
Stephen Joseph Zand
1898 - 1963
Edgar Perseke
1893 - 1978
Moshe Hirschbein
1894 - 1940
Berta Schäfer (Widerstandskämpferin)
1890 - 1945